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Markets

IREN to expand processing capacity by 50%, prepares at-the-market offering

The company ordered more than 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and filed for a potential $6 billion at-the-market share sale, sending the stock lower in pre-market trading.

An engineer sits at a bank of crypto mining rigs.

Tech

Ethereum Foundation wants the network to be the trust layer for AI

Davide Crapis, the foundation's AI lead, sees the network acting as a coordination and verification layer in an increasingly AI-mediated world.

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Tech

The Protocol: New Ethereum scaling plans

Also: OKX and AI agents, Future AI users of blockchain and Bitcoin’s latest governance clash.

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Tech

AI agents will be primary users of blockchain, NEAR co-founder says

Polosukhin argues that AI will become the primary interface layer for everything online, including crypto, abstracting away wallets, explorers and transaction hashes.

NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin (Margaux Nijkerk/ CoinDesk)

Markets

Core Scientific sells $175 million in bitcoin as AI pivot accelerates

CORZ still holds under 1,000 BTC but look to "remain opportunistic" moving forward.

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Markets

MARA and Block jump double digits in pre-market trading while CoreWeave sinks

Mixed fourth quarter results highlight divergence between AI expansion plays and margin pressure.

MARA Holdings CEO Fred Thiel interview at Bitcoin conference in Miami (CoinDesk)

Tech

AI rout hits software stocks, but Grayscale says blockchains stand to benefit

As AI rattles tech stocks, Grayscale's head of research said blockchains will power intelligent agents’ transactions and help offset emerging risks.

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Finance

Crypto wallets for AI agents are creating a new legal frontier, says Electric Capital

As AI agents grow more autonomous, developers are already giving them crypto wallets, allowing software to hold assets, pay for services, trade tokens and even hire other agents. The technical pieces are falling into place. The legal ones are not.

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Bitwise's Hunter Horsley says AI Is ‘unstoppable freight train’ for crypto, while Haun’s Monica urges caution

As artificial intelligence races ahead, some crypto executives believe it could become the force that finally pushes blockchain infrastructure into widespread use. Others aren’t convinced the leap is so straightforward.

Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley and Anchorage Digital co-founder Diogo Monica @ NEARCON 2026 (Margaux Nijkerk/ CoinDesk)

Finance

Crypto isn't losing to AI, its just 'capitalism doing its job,' says Dragonfly

Comparisons between AI’s explosive consumer adoption and crypto’s trajectory misunderstand the nature of the products, Dragonfly's Haseeb Qureshi told CoinDesk in an interview.

Haseeb Quershi (Dragonfly) at Consensus Hong Kong